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After many a summer, a foreign fighter reached the U.S. without bringing along a glass chin and a pair of collapsible knees. In smoke-hazy Madison Square Garden, hairy-chested Marcel Cerdan, middleweight champion of Europe, danced out from his corner last week and swung like a Normandy windmill. George Abrams, one of the top four U.S. middleweights, looked surprised and swung back. For the next ten rounds they fought it out. Then they waited vacant-eyed and with blood trickling down their faces while the ballots were collected. The winner, to no one's surprise but Abrams...
Tough Like Hell. The U.S. hoped to rush a helicopter and a crew across the Atlantic in time to be of service; it was ordered back from the Azores when word arrived that Swiss guides, Alpinists and planes had the situation well in hand. Swiss Army Private Marcel Etter, one of a party of 73 who made the tortuous ascent, told a TIME correspondent...
Attempting-and persisting in-production of such a pretentious movie, while the Nazis strutted through Pathé's Joinville studio, was the amazing accomplishment of France's smoothest movie team: small, elegant Director Marcel Carne and tousled Writer Jacques Preévert (Hôtel du Nord, Le Jour se Léve). U.S. moviegoers, unaccustomed to concentrated mixtures of sex, cynicism and murky symbolism, may enjoy the picture's sharply witty individual scenes and wonder what they all add up to. The overall theme might boil down to this: "Life is a tragicomedy, whether viewed from...
This peace conference of the mind had not been called by any government. It was largely organized by Marcel Raymond, a Geneva university professor, and Swiss Musician Ernst-Alexandre Ansermet. Present were delegates from France (Catholic Writer Georges Bernanos, Socialist Writer Jean Guéhenno), Italy (Socialist Novelist Ignazio Silone), Hungary (Marxist Critic George Lukacs), Germany (Existentialist Karl Jaspers), Switzerland (Philosopher Denis de Rougemont), Britain (Poet Stephen Spender) and others...
...Welldigger's Daughter (Siritzky International) is not the best movie the French ever turned out, but it was made by the same skilled hands (writer-director-producer Marcel Pagnol) and features a couple of the same players as the successful Baker's Wife...